Alpenus maculosus
Alpenus maculosus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Tribe: | Arctiini |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Alpenus |
Species: | A. maculosus |
Binomial name | |
Alpenus maculosus (Stoll in Cramer, 1781) | |
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Alpenus maculosus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Stoll in 1781. It is found along the Gold Coast and in Lagos, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, eastern Africa and Zimbabwe.[1]
The larvae feed on Commelina, Aster, Bidens pilosa, Senecio abyssinicus, Ipomoea, Zea mays, Arachis hypogaea, Phaseolus, Pseudarthria, Voandzeia subterranea, Gossypium and Theobroma cacao.
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